COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The family-like atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.
Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- This position is for School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS).
- Design and develop world models that learn compact representations of VRP states, transitions and solution trajectories.
- Integrate learned world models with neural solvers, planning, search or reinforcement learning methods for decision-making.
- Implement strong neural and traditional optimization baselines and evaluate them on synthetic and real-world VRP datasets.
- Prepare research papers, technical documentation and reusable code.
- Undertake other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS- Minimum master degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or closely related disciplines with particular focus on Artificial Intelligence.
- At least one year of relevant research or development experience in reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization or a related area.
- Working knowledge of world models, generative modelling, combinatorial optimization, vehicle routing problems,neural solvers or graph neural networks.
- Ability to design rigorous experiments, build benchmarks, analyze results and reproduce research findings.
- Solid foundations in algorithms, data structures and mathematical reasoning.
- Research publications or substantial project experience in AI or optimization are advantageous.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare technical reports and papers. Self-motivated and able to work independently while collaborating effectively in a small academic research team.
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Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Singapore Management University
